Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20


climate and water supply of this syndi-
este ridden and land-fraud region, the
writer will not undertake TO say, but
| there is no danger of exaggeration In the
emphatic assertion that better lands, bet
ter water and better climate are to be
| found nowhere in Texas. The soil is
rich, deep and easily cultivated, the wa
| ter, with the exception Of two or three
salt streams, pure, cold, delicious, while
| the climate is unsurpassed for equable-
ness, salubrity and heslthfulness. The
altitude ranges from 1900 to 1000 feet,
and the atmosphere is cool, dry and
bracing. The nights, from the middle OF
November to the 1st of May, are colder
| than in the middle and northeastern
Texas, but the bright SUNNI days are
warm and delightful. AS strange as it
may seem, the northers are neither so
frequent nor so severe as they are east
of the hundreth parallel, while the
northwestern counties are almost exempt
from them. There is about one month
more of winter than in Middle Texas,
while the summers are not so severe, and
the drouths less frequent. The precipi-
tation is greater than in the belt south Of
! he thirty-fourth parallel of latitude and
west Of the ninety seventh parallel OF
| longitude. There is very little timber in
the Panhandle, but there can be no ques-
| ton that tree culture can be prosecuted
with great success. A German near Mo-
| beetle, in the edge Of the Staked Plains,
| has $4,000 trees growing, and has ey-
! perienced no difficulty in prOpagating the
pecan, blackberry, cottonwood and other
varieties without irrigation. The writer
believes that the pecan, blackberry, hick-
orynut, cottonwood, walnut, elm, cedar
and pine can be grown successfully on
every acre OF the plains, and that oil the
cereals, fruits and vegetables that grow
in this latitude will yield abundant profits
to the industrious and enterprising hus-
bsndman.
B, Lsrge areas OF the Panhandle are lessed
and enclosed by cattle syndicates, but
the land law of 1887 is being put in OPP
Grafton and the agricultural sections are
being taken up by settlers. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 10000 acres OF
agricultural land in the counties through
which the Fort Worth and Denver runs,
open for purchase and settlement. The
capital syndicate's lends are located in
Oldham, Hartley and Dall6m. This solid
body of 100000 acres is sealed with
bsrbed barrier against the settler. and
will be put upon the market only when it
suits the purpose of the syndicate.
It is understood that three other rail
roads will be built through the Panhan
die, from the northeast to the southwest.
and south, within the next twelve
months. These are the Frisco, which
enters the state at Mobeetie; the Kansas
Southern, now built to q point about ten
miles south of Canadian City in Hemp
hill county, and the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific, which is to enter the
Panhandle near the center Of the north
ern boundary and pass out in south
western direction towards Ell Paso. The
writer has high authority for the state
ment that no less than 600 miles OF track
will be put down by these and other COM
panies in the Panhandle within year
from this date.
There can be no doubt that there is a
bright and glorious future for the Pan
handle. The Fort Worth and Denver is
the glowing sunbeam through the desert
and darkness, and like the hght-giving,
fructifying forces of the
summers heat, it is dispelling error, in
wiling enterprise and encouraging devel- |
opment. Under the popular management |
II President Morgan Jones and Super
Charles L. Frost, it has already |
achieved marvellous results, and is moving
grandly to the front SIS the favorite
and most valuable road in the state.
When the connection is made at
the state line the two roads will be con-
solidsted and called by the new name,
''Denver, Texas and Fort WORTH" and
one management will cover the entire
line from Denver to the southern Jermi.
nus. Mr.. S. F. Meek, pleasant gentle
man and a trained railroad official, has
already been appointed general manager
Of the entire line with headquarters at
Denver, and is now in Fort Worth famil-
iarizing himself with the conditions and
possibilities at the Texas deep water ter
minus.
The following table of distances may be
Of interest TO the reader:
From Fort Worth to